Which one of the following would be covered by Mr. Rocky State’s Medicare Part A?
a. Durable medical equipment
b. Open heart surgery
c. Prescription drugs
d. Diabetes monitoring
Which is an important attribute to consider when purchasing a digital image scanner?
a. Storage capacity
b. Access speed
c. Page speed
d. Exchange speed
Which of the following is allowed under the Family and Medical Leave Act?
a. Time off to care for an ill/elderly parent
b. Birth of a child
c. Adoption of a child
d. All of these
Symbology is the term used to describe
a. The abbreviation policy for the health care organization.
b. The font in which a machine-readable code is written.
c. The review of illegible handwriting.
d. None of the above.
Which of the following can electronically facilitate the creation of views for data
capture and data display?
a. UHDDS
b. DBMS
c. MDS
d. OCR
Using the information in the table below, when will payback occur? To justify the
purchase of a new release of information tracking system, Health Information
Management Services (HIMS) wants to calculate the new system’s payback period. The
cost to operate the current system is $25,000 per year. The proposed cost of the new
system for the first year is $35,000 with continuing operation costs per year of $15,000.
An increase of $10,000 per year in billing is anticipated with the new system because of
the addition of a billing component to the release of information tracking functionality.
Data are summarized in the following table:
a. First year
b. Second year
c. Third year
d. Fourth year
Which of the following leadership styles identified in the Blake-Mouton Leadership
Grid is most appropriate when the input of followers is critical to implementing the
leader’s decision AND the stakes and risks associated with the decision are high?
a. Organization man management
b. Authority obedience
c. Country club
d. Team management
The full legal authority in a hospital rests with which organization entity?
a. CEO
b. Governing body
c. Medical staff
d. Executive committee
Error
Match the term with the correct descriptor.
a. Hypothesis
b. Methodology
c. Specific aims
d. Literature review
e. Validity
f. Reliability
g. Bias
h. Prevalence
i. Incidence
The outcomes data warehouse should be structured around
a. An individual person whose data are stored in the warehouse.
b. The health care industry€s data.
c. The population of people served or to be served by the warehouse.
d. Billed data captured from coded data.
Effective diversity management
a. Suppresses all conflicts based on racial or ethnic tensions.
b. Insures that the number of employees in the workplace are equally balanced in terms
of gender, race, disability status, and sexual orientation.
c. Provides a culture in which employees and clients accept and value individual
differences.
d. All of the above.
Question to be answered
Match the term with the correct descriptor.
a. Independent variable
b. Dependent variable
c. Institutional review board
d. Risk factors
e. Specificity
f. Confounding variables
g. Case
h. Control
i. Research question
j. Historical-prospective study
k. Recall bias
l. Interviewer bias
Which of the following questions would be considered a double-barreled question in a
survey document?
a. Are troubleshooting personnel courteous and knowledgeable?
b. Do you agree troubleshooting personnel are discourteous?
c. Do troubleshooting personnel respond in a timely manner?
d. Are troubleshooting personnel highly skilled?
404.90 (ICD-9-CM code field)
Following are several types of data commonly found in a health information system.
Match each according to the appropriate category it represents. When two possible
categories exist, select the €best€ category.
a. Text/categorical
b. Narrative/textual
c. Logic
d. Quantitative
Which of the following is an example of a departmental information system?
a. Business Intelligence
b. Radiology
c. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention surveillance
d. Master patient index
Which one of the following is NOT a step in building a data dictionary?
a. Perform an inventory of the current system.
b. Identify new data content needs of the current system.
c. Mandate the adoption of your preferred definitions of data elements.
d. Develop a consensus between all users of the system.
Percent of all true non-cases correctly identified
Match the term with the correct descriptor.
a. Independent variable
b. Dependent variable
c. Institutional review board
d. Risk factors
e. Specificity
f. Confounding variables
g. Case
h. Control
i. Research question
j. Historical-prospective study
k. Recall bias
l. Interviewer bias
Classifies clinical nursing interventions
Match the following coding systems and terminologies with the appropriate descriptor.
a. ICD-9-CM
b. ICD-10
c. CPT
d. NOC
e. NDC
f. SNOMED CT g, DSM
g. Match the following coding systems and terminologies with the appropriate
descriptor.
h. DRG
i. LOINC
j. SNOP
When should the standardized mortality ratio (SMR) be used?
a. When age-specific rates are available
b. When the number of deaths per age category is large
c. When age-specific rates are not available
d. All of the above
Referring to the information below, how many computed fields are there?
An automated record tracking system is capable of tracking multiple volumes of the
same record.
The significance section of the research proposal conveys why the research is needed or
important, and it is stated succinctly and clearly.
Stage Two of Meaningful Use for Public Health requires public health agencies to be
able to receive patient-identified data based on syndromic surveillance rules and send
alerts to health care providers about public health events.
Referring to the information below, which information refers to the data value?
Coding Scheme
Sex
1 = female
2 = male
Fee-for-service reimbursement was mandated in the early 1980s for all inpatients and
outpatients.
The members of the Council on Certification are appointed by the board of directors of
American Health Information Management Association.
The standard deviation is the most common measure of variation and is represented by
the symbol S.